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What if certain songs could transport you back to your most cherished memories? Join us on Bonus Dad, Bonus Daughter as we recount the songs that have shaped our lives. Hannah and Davey kick off the episode with a heartfelt exchange about the songs that remind them of each other, like the comforting "Roll To Me" by Del amitri and the whimsical "I'm Yours" by Jason Mraz. Their banter takes a hilarious turn with Davey’s memorable mix-up of "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and "Drops of Jupiter," making for an unforgettable karaoke wedding story.

Get ready to laugh and reminisce as we journey through the quirky world of childhood songs that have taken on new meanings with age. From the audaciously sung "Bitch" by Meredith Brooks in a store to the reflective nature of "I Touch Myself" by Divinyls, this episode explores the songs that have provided both comfort and amusement over the years. The discussion deepens as we touch on tunes that console us during tough times, like "Leave a Light On" by Papa Roach and Sheryl Crow’s "If It Makes You Happy." We also share our evolving music tastes, even if jazz remains a love-it-or-hate-it genre.

Finally, we take a lively plunge into the world of cover songs and karaoke favorites, sparking debates and laughter alike. From the striking rendition of Papa Roach’s "Last Resort" by Falling in Reverse to the staples like "Ain't No Sunshine" and "The Way You Make Me Feel," the conversation is a delightful mix of musical opinions. As we wrap up, we leave you with a cheerful farewell and an encouragement to enjoy the sunny day ahead, signifying the warm, humorous, and heartfelt tone that makes this episode a must-listen.

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Davey:

Hello and welcome to Bonus Dad. Bonus Daughter a special father-daughter podcast with me Hannah and me, davy, where we discuss our differences, similarities, share a few laughs and stories.

Davey:

within our ever-changing and complex world, Each week we will discuss a topic from our own point of view and influences throughout the decades or you could choose one by contacting us via email, instagram, facebook or TikTok links in bio. Hello and welcome to another edition of Bonus Dad, bonus Daughter, and today we're doing a slightly different episode. Hannah came up with this one. She texted me with a really good idea and basically I was all over it. I thought this is an amazing idea.

Hannah:

I'm just going to stop you right there. I didn didn't text you. I left you a voicemail message whilst I was in my car on, like like apple car play. I wasn't like on my mobile phone whilst I was driving. I wasn't, I really wasn't. I left you a message because I thought of it on the way home from, I think, work or something yeah and I just had to tell you. But I couldn't think of a way to like write it down without forgetting, so I sent you a voicemail message.

Davey:

Much similar, really, to the fact we've just the conversation that we've just had just off air, in the fact that we don't actually we didn't actually know what's called this episode, because we didn't know if it was a song quiz or what it was. But essentially, what we've kind of come up with between us is that this is an episode of us talking about specific songs that invoke certain emotions and memories.

Hannah:

Yes, in our lives, specifically our lives specifically our lives.

Davey:

What I might do, actually, hannah, is I might let the ai come up with this with a uh episode title for this one.

Hannah:

Yeah, let's, let's do that. So this is the ai do all the hard work?

Davey:

yeah, coast, ai will co-host ai, I'll do the uh, do the hard work on this one. Yeah, so essentially, yeah, this was your idea and what you did is? You sent me a list of questions? Yeah, not questions.

Hannah:

Kind of things that we wrote together a little bit as well on that trip to Loweston, yeah, yeah.

Davey:

A few things of ideas that we came up with, but what we don't know is slightly different is that we have filled these out independently.

Hannah:

Yes, we don't know what each other have written.

Davey:

Yeah.

Hannah:

And I'm very interested to know if some of these are similar.

Davey:

I think some of them will be the same. Yeah, I really do. I think some of them will be vastly different.

Hannah:

Yeah.

Davey:

But I also think on some of these I will know what you've put. And I think on the other side of things, I think you'll know what I've put.

Hannah:

Okay.

Davey:

I really do. I really do Cool. So we've got. How many did you say? We've got 13 of these.

Hannah:

I think we said 15. 15. Okay, we have a number of questions that we're going to go through, so I guess, from the top, would you like to take the first question.

Davey:

Okay, so the very first question is what song is it that makes me think of you?

Hannah:

Yes, and I thought of a song that makes me think of you.

Davey:

Okay, so what have you put for what you think of me?

Hannah:

I put Roll To Me by Delametri.

Davey:

Really yeah, really why.

Hannah:

Because we used to sing it in the car a lot together. Yeah, um, and it's the song is about if you're having some like trouble in your life, like it mentions in the song, like car trouble, if it mentions any trouble, like if you got yourself into a sticky situation that they can roll to them yeah, and that makes me think of you, because I would go to you if I was in trouble.

Davey:

Oh, that's really sweet.

Hannah:

Yeah, then what did you go for?

Davey:

That's genuinely really sweet.

Hannah:

Yeah, it's a good song. Oh, delamitri's like unsung hero.

Davey:

I love Delamitri. It's so good. I absolutely love Delamitri.

Hannah:

We've started on a really nice one. That was really lovely. I hope mine's just as heartfelt.

Davey:

I feel quite bad now.

Hannah:

This is like the Christmas gift all over again.

Davey:

You got me a really nice gift and I got you a whale. Now, the first song that makes me think of you is Jason Mraz. I'm Yours.

Hannah:

Oh, because I used to sing it on the ukulele.

Davey:

Because you used to sing it on the ukulele a lot and yeah. Whenever I hear the opening song, the opening bars to that song, well, lot and yeah. Whenever I hear the the opening song, the opening bars to that song, yeah, yeah, I immediately think of you.

Hannah:

That is that first one pops into my head. It's cute, it's cute. Yeah, so the next one we come up with a song that makes you think of your own wedding day okay, of my own wedding day, yeah I did wonder if you'd answered this as my wedding day, or yours no, no, no, I did, I did my, I did my own.

Davey:

Yeah, breakfast at Tiffany's.

Hannah:

Oh, okay, yeah, Okay.

Davey:

Because we had at the end of the night we had a DJ but we did like a bit of a karaoke thing.

Hannah:

Yes.

Davey:

And I just remember me and your mum, incredibly drunk, trying to belt out Breakfast at Tiffany's, and I even think we did it twice you know what?

Hannah:

I thought that you belted out Drops of Jupiter by train. I didn't think you did Breakfast at Tiffany's shit have you messed up.

Davey:

That's what I meant to put Drops of Jupiter not Breakfast at Tiffany's.

Hannah:

Ah, the bed, she's back in the year?

Davey:

yeah, it was.

Hannah:

It was Drops of Jupiter okay, mum don't listen to this episode.

Davey:

Okay, so I need to do some serious editing now.

Hannah:

Rerecord rerecord?

Davey:

Actually, no, I'll be honest. I always say that, don't I? If someone messes up in an episode, I'm going to leave it in.

Hannah:

Just carry it in, so I'm going to leave it in.

Davey:

Yeah, I love you, sharon.

Hannah:

So I had a few songs that came to mind that made me think of my wedding day, I dancing, yeah, at the end of the night, but I had to refrain and I actually put still into you by paramore, because that's what I walked down the aisle to because, yes, because mitchell and I had been together a long time before we got married.

Hannah:

We were actually together for seven, eight years actually. Uh, seven, seven, yeah, seven, oh god, I don't know. Seven or eight years, um, seven or eight years before we actually got married, and we were engaged for six of those years as well, but you're also friends before that as well, weren't you?

Hannah:

you've been knowing each other for a long time yeah, so the song is kind of it was very telling of how long, like after all this time, I'm still into you like that's kind of that was the message we wanted to put, and I found this lovely acoustic cover, actually by ashley tisdale and her husband um, and I managed to find it on Spotify and they allowed me to play it down the aisle.

Hannah:

So so, yeah, we there were other aisle songs as well that were mostly from Scrubs, and I'll come on to that later on one of the questions um, but yeah, that's, that's the song I walked down the aisle to. So it just makes me think, and every time it comes up because I've still got it on my, my own Spotify, like light songs and whenever it comes up, I instantly think of my wedding day.

Davey:

So yeah, I must admit, sitting there on your wedding day or walking you down the aisle on wedding day and listening to some of the songs that you had, that was amazing. That was such a good song.

Hannah:

I made a wedding playlist as well, so when we were eating, I was very conscious that I want to choose my own music, because I don't like a lot of lovey-dovey music and a lot of the stuff in the charts I'm not massively keen on, so basically I had an acoustic playlist of songs to play whilst we're eating, but not all of them were love songs.

Davey:

No, they weren't.

Hannah:

Acoustic covers of like Green Day and.

Hannah:

Papa Roach and like just very, very subdued, because every time something come on and you caught on to what it was, you'd look over at me and you'd be like nice. So it's a way for me to get in my like emo-y vibes into my wedding day without it being like whilst we were eating. And yeah, I really enjoyed making that wedding playlist and I remember listening to it in the car like it took me a good month to actually come up with a massive playlist like that, so I had to. It was a lot of time I had to cover that they were playing all this music for and, um, I remember like listening to it over and over again in my car, just making sure everything sounded nice and that everything like they were good covers and and yeah, and I found some very unique ones as well, so I was really really happy with my there were, I mean there was some.

Davey:

There were some versions on there that I'd never heard of yeah and I was like that's good, yeah, but like say lyrically, I knew exactly what it was.

Hannah:

I could share you the playlist yeah, that was amazing.

Davey:

In fact, I think you should okay on the socials oh, what share it with? Us yeah, yeah, yeah I was going to say specifically with you. We should Share the link. Share the link. I can do that. Yeah, share the link on the socials because it is a very good playlist and especially that Paramore version was awesome, absolutely awesome.

Hannah:

Cool. So the next question I thought we could do is a song that makes you think of your childhood.

Davey:

Okay, I'm just going to say actually at this point during this quiz, so I think not particularly with this particular question, but some of these, these are what, as I thought of when I saw the questions, so as in the reason I'm saying this is a caveat is because if this you'd have asked me this question 10 years ago, asked me some of these questions five years ago or even maybe a month ago, some of these answers might be different.

Hannah:

Yeah, yeah sure.

Davey:

So this is subjective to now. Okay, so I'll just say, and I will explain why, when we, when we have those ones but this isn't obviously one of those questions, but I but a couple of the questions as well I had to put two songs down you cheeky devil I know because there are two specific songs that do always remind, think of childhood. Now, what I've kind of gone here is one that thing I think of with my childhood, but then a little bit older as well, so almost like pre-teen okay as well.

Hannah:

I do only have one, and it was my childhood okay I stuck with the rules, but okay, okay.

Davey:

So the first one that I thought of that popped. And again, all of these are the first one that popped into my head. I didn't think too long about this, just first one that popped into my head safety dance okay, I don't know if I know that, one bye safety dance? No, no, you do not, and the reason why is because of the video okay and it was on the original.

Davey:

Now that's what I call music and it's the. I got it for Christmas I think I've mentioned this on another podcast before and it's got the picture of the pig on the side. It's a double cassette and the safety dance was on it and so was Men at Work Down Under. Oh yeah, the same kind of thing Tune, yeah. And I just remember the. I remember loving the video because it was a guy running through a field with a small kind of court jester and a female in this like this uh, flowing kind of summer dress okay, gypsy summer dress and they're singing safety dance. It's a very, very strange video, but it's a very quirky song okay it's a very, very quirky song and it's just brilliant.

Davey:

I just love it. So that's what I put for my childhood one. But then as I started getting a little bit older and started appreciating music a little bit more and getting into music and as you know me, when it comes to songs, I focus on the lyrics quite a bit, because I'm a lyricist, yeah, and I like to work out what songs are actually about and appreciate lyrics a lot more.

Davey:

Under the Bridge by the Red Hot Chili Peppers oh, okay, okay yeah fair enough, yeah that is one of the first songs that I remember listening to and working out what the lyrics meant and realising it was a very, very deep song and I think that's kind of one of those very, very first moments of my life where I thought I like lyrics. So that's why I've kind of put that in there, because Under the Bridge is an incredibly powerful song lyrically, which is quite strange for Chili Peppers because they're not really known for their powerful lyrics. No, Especially with Anthony Clydes just putting California in every single song.

Hannah:

Yeah.

Davey:

Yeah, but Under the Bridge, I think is yeah, that's one of my earliest really nice songs. It's not a nice song, is it? It's quite a heavy song.

Hannah:

Yeah, but yeah, it always reminds me of um of my youth pre-teens?

Davey:

yeah, of my youth. What about yourself?

Hannah:

I put bitch by medrith brooks because, uh, childhood memory of me singing that at the top of my lungs through asda and my mum was like no, no, no, it's, it's not. It's not bitch, it's witch. And um, yeah, just, uh, just a small child of eight yeah singing. I'm a bitch all the way through. Asda just just makes me laugh. Yeah, but it's also a story that that comes up in conversation quite often. Um, about my childhood. So that was a solid choice for me.

Davey:

I didn't even have to think about it okay, this, this I don't know if you've got. I'm just having a little look at some of the other questions just to see about it. Okay, this, this I don't know if you've got. I'm just having a little look on some of the other questions just to see if it's. Oh, I don't know. I don't know because you might have chosen it there, but when you're talking about memories and songs one of the funniest memories of you and songs and this is again to do with lyrics when we used to sing sing star, okay, and you had this sudden and I think you got to a certain age and you realized what the and this is again to do with lyrics when we used to sing Sing Star.

Davey:

Okay, and you had this sudden, I think you got to a certain age and you realised what the song was about and you were singing it on Sing Star.

Hannah:

You're talking about. I Touch Myself the diviner song. Yeah.

Davey:

And you suddenly had this epiphany in front of me and your mum. While you were belting this song out, I was like I don't know what the song's about and you remember what it was that changed your view of that whole song, do you?

Hannah:

know what? I actually still, to this day, love singing that song because it's so good for breath control.

Davey:

It's unreal.

Hannah:

So, yes, I do still sing the song, but I don't know if I could sing it live because it makes me feel very uncomfortable.

Davey:

It's like Independent Love Song as well. That song you ever heard that? I can't even remember how, but I remember Independent Love Song. It's like a love song, but it's not really a love song.

Hannah:

Oh right, A bit like Laid by James. I love Laid by James.

Davey:

I play that.

Hannah:

Yeah, I've performed that Hopefully that's not one of yours.

Davey:

No, no, no, I've performed that a few times. I like Laid. It's such a great song.

Hannah:

So the next song. We're changing the tone a little bit.

Davey:

Yeah.

Hannah:

Song for when you're sad. What do you listen to when you're feeling a bit low?

Davey:

See, I was thinking so. Sometimes, if I'm feeling a little bit low, I kind of listen to upbeat songs. Okay, To kind of cheer me up.

Hannah:

But I thought because it's a sad one. I similarly went down a fairly similar vein to you a little yeah, but I didn't write an upbeat song.

Davey:

I thought, okay, I will go down like what? What is a sad song, you know, like to the and it's leave a light on, by papa roach okay this is what I was saying about. This is how I think about now yeah, okay, okay okay, I've got that song at the moment on my like regular playlist okay have you ever heard it?

Hannah:

I think I do know it. Yeah, I think I do.

Davey:

It is Now. I don't know. If this is true, I put it on the On Towers playlist.

Hannah:

Yeah, I'm pretty certain, I do know it.

Davey:

When I said he dedicates this to Chester Bennington.

Hannah:

Yes, yeah, yeah yeah. Yeah, I'm familiar.

Davey:

Yeah, it is such a beautiful song, but it's a waltz right it's a waltz, it's three, four beat and I think I think waltzes, actually that kind of three, four beat, does invoke a different type of emotion in you yeah um, like iris goo goo dolls as well. It's that kind of yeah, that waltz beat to it and uh, so yeah at the moment. This is why I say at the moment what I think that leave a light on by papa roach. The video as well is awesome, okay, absolutely awesome. So yeah, yourself.

Hannah:

A song for when I'm sad, If it Makes you Happy. By Sheryl Crow. Okay, because if it makes you happy, then why do you feel so sad? Yes, and I don't know why, but I just love belting that at the top of my lungs when I'm sad. If it makes you happy, it's just great. It's just great, it's just oh, it's just such a banger and it just cheers me up when I sing it.

Davey:

Yeah, so I don't know, I just yeah, just like it. Um, this is again, but just very um telling about music tastes yeah, it is and the fact that it's very wide. You know, and again, like I, like yourself, um, I used, I've listened to so many different styles of music throughout the ages, throughout the ages, you oldie yeah but I wouldn't say I mean I used to be into a particular set of stuff, but now I love all style of music.

Hannah:

Yeah.

Davey:

All music is awesome apart from jazz.

Hannah:

Jazz is a bit. Yeah, I still can't.

Davey:

But I like acid jazz.

Hannah:

Yeah, I'm still not on the bandwagon, unfortunately.

Davey:

Yeah, I do still not on the bandwagon, unfortunately. Yeah, I do like acid jazz.

Hannah:

I feel like I should like it, but I don't.

Davey:

Yeah, I appreciate the. Complexity.

Hannah:

The complexity and I also appreciate how well they play the instruments.

Davey:

I just don't like how weird it sounds altogether Just chaotic, just mad it just doesn't follow anything and I think that's kind of the point of it, but yeah. Yeah.

Hannah:

What about a song for when you're stressed?

Davey:

Okay, morchiba, enjoy the Ride.

Hannah:

Okay.

Davey:

Love that song. Okay yeah, it's basically saying you know, enjoy life.

Hannah:

Stop the song is essentially Stop being stressed.

Davey:

Stop being stressed and enjoy it. And that song just put it on and just yeah, just enjoy the ride.

Hannah:

When I was having a particularly bad day at work, I used to drive home from Norwich and the journey although I'm not that far out of main Norwich, it could take me 45 minutes, just with rush hour traffic, and I would play at the top of the volume on repeat, bom, bom, bom by Sam and the Womp. Because how can you not laugh at halfway through a song? Because I just needed it was almost like a brain cleanse Sam and the Womp, I've heard that for years. Awesome, I'm cool, then so groovy, I like your style of womping and it's just such a good song. If you just want something silly and you want to forget everything that's just gone on in your work day, or forget everything that's just like maybe you just had something really like randomly traumatic happen to you in your life, you just put on Sam and the Womp. How can you not laugh at like halfway through a song? Oh, it's so good, it's so good, amazing amazing.

Davey:

I'll just give you another little sign. So I stole some of the lyrics from Enjoy the Ride. Oh For what you Gonna Do With that?

Hannah:

Okay.

Davey:

Yeah, so the actual line in there just enjoy the ride. Yeah, it's a homage to Morchiba.

Hannah:

Yeah, it's a homage, not stolen.

Davey:

It's not stolen. It's a homage to Morchiba.

Hannah:

Yes, Speaking about having a crazy time in the car to Bom Bom Bom by Simon the Womp.

Davey:

Yeah.

Hannah:

What is a song that you play when you're happy? So I had to think about this one.

Davey:

I had to think about this one yeah, not really say think about, but I had to think about the definition of happy Right. I thought so, rather than think about the song, I thought, right, first of all, if I was to put myself in a happy situation, what would it be? And I thought, okay, you know, beach, summer, barbecue, that type of thing, just chilling out on the beach watching the waves, that type of thing, relaxing, relaxing thing. And there's one song that popped into my head and I don't think you'd know it.

Hannah:

Oh, okay.

Davey:

Okay, it's by a band called Authority Zero. Nope, now, authority Zero are quite a heavy band, okay, but they do a few ska songs. Not many, but there's about five of their songs where they do kind of do ska. Yeah, and there's a song called Summer Sickness.

Hannah:

Okay.

Davey:

And it's awesome.

Hannah:

I don't know why, suddenly my brain went summertime, summertime, summer.

Davey:

No, not Lana Del Rey, no, just Summer Sickness is an amazing song by her and it's just like it's just a really chilled happy song and it's just yeah, just chill.

Hannah:

I actually went for Buck Rogers by Feeder.

Davey:

Okay.

Hannah:

It's got a CD player player, player, player.

Davey:

Did you put on the On Towers playlist?

Hannah:

Yes, yeah, because I was like I think we're going to make it. It's just so good, it's just so good.

Davey:

There were certain songs on that playlist. I was in and I was like that's Hannah.

Hannah:

Yeah, that's Hannah.

Davey:

That is me, that's Hannah. And when Buck Rogers came on, I was like I thought it was a toss up between your mum and you and I was like, yeah, that's definitely Hannah.

Hannah:

Yeah, it's a great song.

Davey:

It is a great song.

Hannah:

Just when I'm happy it's just singing like, play it, play it, play it. Just got a Jaguar. It's just so good.

Davey:

Oh, just, you've got leather seats. So I'm just going to go on a completely tangent now and I don't know why this has popped into my head. But do you know our mate from Bowling for Soup?

Hannah:

I know our mate from Bowling for Soup. Yeah, we were talking about him earlier. I don't know him personally.

Davey:

No, he's on. Yeah, jarrett, I think his name is he's a great guy. He is, isn't he Huge?

Hannah:

fan.

Davey:

There was a. I saw when I scrolled through there was another little video of him and he said. He said, oh, I need to have a word with almost like a Mandela effect. He said I need to have a word with you all about who actually wrote Stacey's Mum.

Hannah:

Oh, okay.

Davey:

And it was a kind of a joke, but I did have to Google it because it was so convincing. He said you know, a lot of people think it's this band called Fountains of Wayne who actually wrote it, but I think you'll find it might have been Bowling for Soup. And then on the comments it was like, oh my God, what Mandela effect. I thought it was Fountains of Wayne and it really got me thinking. I had to double check myself but it was Fountains of Wayne, but Bowling Pursuit covered it.

Hannah:

He tragically lost his life? Did you know Lead singer of Fountains of Wayne?

Davey:

No, did he.

Hannah:

Covid. Yeah, complications with Covid. Oh no, yeah, because I remember playing a gig, actually because we used to cover a Fountains of Wayne song, not Stacey's mum, we used to cover hey Julie.

Hannah:

Oh, yeah, yeah, and I remember saying like oh, you know, I'm actually just, you know, slightly caveat to the song. It's a really like sort of chirpy song and it's about someone like coming home to their loved one at the end of the day after a hard working day and it's a really nice song. But sadly, you know, the lead singer has passed away. So kind of like a nod to him a little bit, we are still going to. And, yeah, really sad, covid he died.

Davey:

I never knew that. Very sad, yeah, very, very sad. Never knew that.

Hannah:

Very hard song to sing, Stacey's Mum.

Davey:

It is.

Hannah:

Especially the Stacey's mum has got a girl.

Davey:

Well, it's got that so low. Yeah, it really is.

Hannah:

Stacey, can I come over?

Davey:

Yeah.

Hannah:

Have you seen the TikToks where people are pregnant at the moment? They what are you going to call your daughter? And they're like Stacey yeah, Stacey's mum.

Davey:

Did you know?

Hannah:

Teenage Dirtbag I am familiar with Teenage Dirtbag, do you?

Davey:

know who sings the live. I know it's him.

Hannah:

Yeah, I know.

Davey:

I always thought he got a female vocalist. I got two tickets to Iron Maiden. Have you seen it? When he does it live and he brings in his breath and gets really and gets that high, that's insane.

Hannah:

Yeah.

Davey:

That is insane.

Hannah:

I've got two tickets to Ireland. Yeah, that's brilliant. Anyway, going from happy to hate, yes, a song you hate.

Davey:

I had to not even think about this.

Hannah:

I didn't have to think about it, but I had to look up the name of the song because I had no idea what it was oh, no, no, no, no no. I had to look up the name of it because I wasn't sure what it was called.

Davey:

All right, ok, I think you would have, if we've chosen the same one.

Hannah:

I think, yeah, you would have known what it was called. You go first then.

Davey:

OK, what band do you think I chose?

Hannah:

Oh, solo artist, all right, okay, a band, yeah, a band you hate? Yeah, oh, you must have gone for coldplay. Oh, yeah, 100% I went for coldplay yellow oh, you went.

Davey:

Yellow yellow oh no. A song about oh no, can't bear coldplay. I do apologize to anybody who likes coldplay, but I just you're not a fan I really, and I know a lot of people don't like Coldplay.

Hannah:

It's just dirge.

Davey:

It's just dirge and I know Coldplay are a very big band and it's also quite fashionable to not like Coldplay, but I genuinely don't.

Hannah:

The same thing happened with Nickelback it was fashionable to not like Nickelback but I love Nickelback.

Davey:

I like Nickelback, nickelback's cool.

Hannah:

I went with. Say you Won't Let Go by James Arthur.

Davey:

I can see that actually.

Hannah:

Yes, I am not a James Arthur fan?

Davey:

No, you're not.

Hannah:

I think I just don't want to say because I just feel really bad, I just it doesn't have to be personal to him.

Davey:

It could be his musical style.

Hannah:

No, it's his musical style. It's the way he sings, I think.

Davey:

Yeah.

Hannah:

It can come across very flat, yeah, and that's just not appeasing to my ears. I just can't get on board and that particular song I think was just also severely overplayed on like main time radio. So I just, yeah, I just can't.

Davey:

Yeah.

Hannah:

No, not a fan.

Davey:

Okay, not a fan?

Hannah:

okay, not a fan, I'm afraid. Sorry, james arthur, like he listens to this this yeah I'm sure he's got some other great music and I've not taken the time to listen to his other stuff and his other albums, but that song in particular can just go in the bin yeah, sorry.

Davey:

Well, the funny thing is is that, um, it's quite well known of my distaste for Coldplay. Yeah, and they've played where I work before and I was not interested in seeing them whatsoever. I could have gone, but no, I wasn't interested. But I do actually work with Chris Martin's cousin as well.

Hannah:

Oh, do you? Yes, yeah.

Davey:

And yeah, he knows I don't like Coldplay. Oh, okay.

Hannah:

Well, you know, everyone has their own individual tastes. Yeah, and that's fine.

Davey:

That's okay, yeah.

Hannah:

So a song for when you just want to dance.

Davey:

Now. So it gets you up dancing Now. Yes, there is one song that I have I will always dance to, whether it be at home, whether it be out, and I've seen this band. I don't know how many times I've seen this band. They're actually very good friends of mine.

Hannah:

Oh, you went local I went local, I went local.

Davey:

So if I went local to a band who I've performed with many times and we've been on gigs together, we've supported them and they've supported us at our EP launch who do you think I've gone for?

Hannah:

You've gone for Kingdom Keys.

Davey:

No, not Kingdom Keys.

Hannah:

Oh sorry.

Davey:

Although Kingdom Keys are amazing, they are awesome, but this is a dancey.

Hannah:

Why can't I think of their name? It begins with K Kill Em On Jambo.

Davey:

Kill Em On Jambo, yeah yeah, and Rip my Feet Away.

Hannah:

Okay.

Davey:

That is when we very niche, oh, very niche, very niche. But if that song comes on, oh, I'm up, I am up. So uh. I remember where we were at fairy fest one year and killer were on stage and I was with your mum and I just went to your mum. This is now going to get silly. As soon as those first few bars started, and uh, yeah and yeah good for you you. But it wasn't just me, it was everyone, it was absolutely everyone. It just goes nuts to rip my feet away.

Hannah:

My mind went to weddings when I picked mine, just because I dance to everything at home and to pick one song would have been very tricky for me. So I actually went with the Masses with this one, because I know a lot of people like this one and it's a very wedding-y song as well, and it's Shut Up and Dance by Walk the Moon, oh, okay.

Davey:

Familiar.

Hannah:

Yes, yeah, Shut up and dance with me, because I think that's something that will get a lot of people up and moving as well. So, I kind of picked one because I would definitely get up and dance to it at a wedding, but I'd also expect other people to get up and dance to it as well.

Davey:

That's almost like midway on the cheese scale.

Hannah:

It is midway on the cheese scale.

Davey:

Isn't it?

Hannah:

I kind of like it, yeah, yeah.

Davey:

It's like getting towards cheesy, but still not that cheesy. Yeah, yeah, okay, I can see that yeah.

Hannah:

I almost put Uptown Funk. Actually I was so close to putting Uptown Funk but then I thought, oh, maybe a lot of people might think that's a bit overplayed, so I just went with. I went with shut up and dance. I thought, out of the two I'm gonna put that one don't tell you the funny story about uptown funk is that when you said julio gets correct? Yeah, when we were in there you can tell that, you can tell that story oh, this was hilarious.

Davey:

So, um, myself and sharon went to an all-inclusive um holiday resort in tenerife and, of course, with all-inclusive, all the food and everything there you just go and eat. It's obviously not free because you've already paid for it, but it's all-inclusive. So first thing in the morning everybody's in this cafe area getting breakfast and it was packed, it was absolutely rammed and you could hear the chefs kind of talking in the background and all I heard was one of the chefs shout to one of the kitchen porters or whatever, and he just went, julio, like that. And, of course, instant, without even thinking I'm in the queue with all these people, I just went get the stretch. Nothing, absolutely nothing Fell completely flat with everybody in that room and I just looked like an absolute dick. I thought, oh no, yeah, and your mum was just shaking her head, I think, and I was just like no, back to the bacon.

Hannah:

Back to the bacon. Okay, so song you wish, you wrote. Okay, I don't know if we went for the same one. I don't think we went for the same one. Oh, you don't think, okay?

Davey:

I don't know if we went for the same one. I don't think we went for the same one, you don't think I don't, I don't know the same one okay so there are.

Hannah:

So I've written kind of two oh, no, kind of a cheeky one again I have.

Davey:

I have in this song I've actually mentioned a couple of times, it's so the song I will say the song first was sound of silence by disturbed that version I wish I'd not only wrote, because the lyrics are amazing.

Hannah:

Yeah, I did. Who was it originally? Was it Hall and no, no, it was Simon and Garfunkel. Simon and Garfunkel. Simon and Garfunkel.

Davey:

Now that actual I don't know if you've ever read it almost like a dream sequence story and a poem based on Sound of Silence.

Hannah:

Oh, okay.

Davey:

Kind of like that, that's very meta.

Hannah:

We've gone very meta here, yeah, yeah.

Davey:

I've kind of written that. I've written it because it's quite trippy. It's quite, you know, the imagery within Sound of Silence is just awesome yeah, absolutely awesome. And that's what I like about certain lyrics is I like the imagery of how it makes you imagine things and how it makes you feel, just with the use of carefully placed words, to make a one sentence because you have to do this in songs, you can't waffle and I do tend to waffle a lot, like I am now is you have to say a lot in one sentence.

Hannah:

Yeah.

Davey:

So that? So when a cleverly written lyric is written, yeah and Sound of Silence, I think is very much like invokes imagery very well, but Disturbs Version specifically because just the arrangement.

Hannah:

Yeah.

Davey:

Is phenomenal. Now I've also written one line.

Hannah:

Okay.

Davey:

There is one line that I wish I had written. Yeah.

Hannah:

Yeah.

Davey:

In a.

Hannah:

Is it jetpack blues? Yeah, that's what I wrote. You have You've written the same thing, okay. Okay, so then it must be.

Davey:

She's in a long black coat tonight waiting for me in the downpour outside she's singing baby, come home in a melody of tears, while the rhythm of the rain keeps time. Yes.

Hannah:

I wrote that yeah, Right here look.

Davey:

Yeah, I wrote the same, exactly the same, exactly the same. Yes, I knew we'd have one that was the same. Yeah, because the imagery in that says so much, doesn't it?

Hannah:

A melody of tears while the rhythm of the rain keeps time. What an incredibly written.

Davey:

Yeah, she's singing, baby Come Home, in a melody of tears, while the rhythm of the rain keeps time.

Hannah:

Just one incredible line yeah, that is, rhythm of the rain keeps time.

Davey:

what an incredible line yeah, that is one of the did fallout boy write that did.

Hannah:

They wrote that, they wrote that.

Davey:

So I heard that for the first time and I was just like what?

Hannah:

yeah, I know it's such an incredible line. I'm so glad we wrote yeah that is.

Davey:

That was. That is a phenomenal lyric, for those very reasons that.

Hannah:

I just said that's the best thing that's ever happened in my life.

Davey:

Not even a song. Just one line. Yeah, One line.

Hannah:

Well, I did put the song because I think the whole song is very good. But that particular line stands out.

Davey:

But do you know what it invokes a memory of? To me as well? Okay. So have you ever heard of a film called Say Anything with John Cusack? Don't think so, there's okay. So have you ever heard of a film called say anything with john kusak? There's a scene in that very, very famous scene where he's standing outside with a jukebox playing songs oh yeah.

Hannah:

Yeah, I'm familiar with that, yeah but that's.

Davey:

I mean that. That was a kind of imagery that I had in my head. But you know, I've got the dark street, the rain's coming down, crying the white, and again like with blade runner yeah you know the line from blade runner and they'll be lost like memories, like tears in the rain yeah yeah, same kind of thing it's so powerful it's such an awesome line yeah you know singing baby, come home in the melody of tears, while the rhythm of the rain keeps time. Even the cadence of the line, yeah, it's phenomenal.

Hannah:

It's like it sounds like the rain. Oh, it's just so good, it's so well written.

Davey:

It's indeed so yeah.

Hannah:

Yeah, agreed. Song from a movie score.

Davey:

And I know you don't particularly like him as an artist per se. Okay, but Youngblood's version of I Was Made For Loving you.

Hannah:

Oh yeah, yeah, we were talking about this the other day, weren't we?

Davey:

Yeah, I really like that.

Hannah:

I was made for loving you baby. Yeah, it's a very good cover. Yeah, I don't mind Young Blood. He's just not my thing, I think, like you know, I do think he does a really good the songs and stuff that he does. I do think they are good like musically good. It's just not my thing. That's all I'm saying with Youngblood.

Davey:

Yeah, but I mean, his vocal work in that song is amazing.

Hannah:

Yeah, definitely I can't fault it. I can't fault it, it's very good. So yeah, I've got that on pretty much playing over and over again in the car at the moment Mine was Lost Stars, which Keira Knightley sang. It was actually a Maroon 5 song in the movie Begin Again, with Mark Ruffalo and Hayley Steenfield in it. Oh, okay.

Hannah:

Yeah it's just like her version of it. It's just like so much better than Maroon 5, in my opinion, just the way she sweetly sings it With Keira Knightley. When she sings you can tell it's Keira Knightley.

Davey:

Yeah.

Hannah:

Someone else could like. I think my singing voice sounds different to my talking voice.

Davey:

Is that the scene where Mark Ruffalo's in the bar and she's singing solo and then he starts imagining the band around her?

Hannah:

I think so.

Davey:

Is it that?

Hannah:

one. I think that might be the scene, but it's yeah, it's called Lost Stars.

Davey:

Yeah.

Hannah:

It's incredible. I sing it all the time in the car. It's just, it's just such a good song. Yeah, um, and I do. I do think it's better than the original. I do think it's better than maroon fives, but yeah, yeah. So from movies we've going to tv show, so anything that's a series. What did you go for?

Davey:

carry on my wayward son, of course I could have predicted that supernatural yeah, yeah I went with a very personal one.

Hannah:

Actually it's a song by dashboard confessional. It was in scrubs called stolen because it was in fact my first dance at my wedding oh yes um. So yes, I did choose that one, but scrubs itself has an amazing soundtrack we spoke about this before because, and again, because of the music rights.

Hannah:

And, yeah, the music rights, they don't have it now on netflix but on the dvds, if you get the scrubs DVDs, all the music's there and it's incredible. Yeah, they really chose well for a lot of their music. So moving on to best cover song.

Davey:

Okay, we've already mentioned it. Yeah, Sound of Silence Disturbed. Okay, that was yours, yeah, fair enough, but I did put two because I thought I'll put another one. Okay, because I'd already had Sound of Silence previously. Okay and Last Resort.

Hannah:

Okay.

Davey:

Yes.

Hannah:

Last Resort. Who covered it though?

Davey:

Originally by Papa Roach. Yeah, falling in Reverse.

Hannah:

Oh, Falling in Reverse's version.

Davey:

Yeah, falling in Reverse's version of Last Resort Also.

Hannah:

what a cool band name. I always.

Davey:

Falling in reverse. Yeah, yeah, getting up. Standing up, standing up, yeah.

Hannah:

Yeah, cool band name. I went with Blinding Lights by Saint Sonia because yes, because I actually thought that was the original until I was corrected. Because is it the weekend?

Davey:

It's the weekend. It's the weekend, yeah.

Hannah:

So I don't really listen to mainstream music that often so it wouldn't have come up on my thing, but obviously on my release radar covers of like rock covers come up of songs and it's a really good rocky cover of blinding lights yeah, it is genuinely thought it was the original, until my husband corrected me was like you know, this is not the original, right? I was like oh no, uh, so yeah, that's what I chose.

Davey:

You know it's a great cover another fun fact, you know uh, blind, yeah, blinding lights, the. Have you seen the video to blinding lights? Actually haven't no, all right. Okay, it's very neon running driving down the street makes sense um, but we were going to do for our last single, we were going to base it on blinding lights, the same sort of video, but we just obviously didn't have the money for the.

Hannah:

Yeah, the budget to be able to do it. Yeah, so what about worst cover song?

Davey:

didn't? I know you text me the other day and you said you were struggling with this. I didn't have to Immediately, and this is probably a little bit harsh. Okay, it's a cover that I don't think should exist. Okay.

Hannah:

Yeah.

Davey:

Zombie by Miley Cyrus.

Hannah:

Oh, okay, yeah, Zombie is one of them. Classics Doesn't need to be touched.

Davey:

No, leave it.

Hannah:

Leave it alone.

Davey:

Leave Zombie, alone Leave zombie alone.

Hannah:

I actually think the same for my song as well. Yeah, carry on.

Davey:

But I think the reason why is because of what zombie's about.

Hannah:

Yeah.

Davey:

Yeah, and the way she sings it. That doesn't come over and it loses the power of what the song is actually about.

Hannah:

That's fair enough, isn't it? Yeah, and I the song is actually about.

Davey:

That's fair enough, isn't it? Yeah, and I think she's just singing it.

Hannah:

She does some amazing covers, actually, miley Cyrus, don't get me wrong.

Davey:

Yeah, her vocal work is good on it, but I think because it's that song.

Hannah:

Yeah, fair enough.

Davey:

Yeah.

Hannah:

So Landslide? Obviously Fleetwood Mac, stevie Nicks.

Davey:

Yes.

Hannah:

Have you ever heard the Smashing Pumpkins version?

Davey:

No, and I like Smashing Pumpkins. It's dreadful, is it really?

Hannah:

Yeah, it's the worst thing that my ears have ever listened to.

Davey:

I'm sorry.

Hannah:

They just do not do it well.

Davey:

Smashing Pumpkins are quite niche. They're Marmite, yeah, they're quite taste. Anyway, they are yeah.

Hannah:

But their cover should not exist.

Davey:

Okay, no, sorry yeah.

Hannah:

Never heard it, admittedly, but there is just a way with stevie nicks that you just can't, you can't replicate.

Davey:

Yeah, it's. Yeah, see the funny thing and I know I will give my saris credit for this one but when she sings and I can't remember what song it is, but well, she, it's not edge of 17, it's, she does her own version, but it's the, the music, it's the same melody in the same instrumentation. Yeah, um, when she mixes it with stevie nicks of edge of 17, I actually really like that yeah, I really like that.

Hannah:

That's fine. Yeah, but this version what does? It do on the car on the way home.

Davey:

It's not good no, okay, and I know, uh, I'm just gonna with with edge of 17 as well. I know your mom's probably now rolling her eyes at this, but I do feel sorry, because I say this every time I hear that song. I feel so seriously sorry for the guitarist on that song. I really do. He's playing the same note, poor bugger, for the entirety of the song. One note, and especially when she does the extended version. Imagine being the guitarist going come on, Stevie, Come on just.

Hannah:

What's a song that if there was a karaoke thing in a pub you got absolutely peer-pressed into doing Karaoke. What's the song you're choosing?

Davey:

Ain't no Sunshine, Bill Withers.

Hannah:

Oh, of course it is. Yeah, I went for.

Davey:

It's just for the, I knows yeah.

Hannah:

I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, do it all in one breath as well.

Davey:

Yeah, I can't do it all in one breath.

Hannah:

I actually went with one. That probably won't surprise you the Way you Make Me Feel, michael Jackson, because I did it live in. America with a live band and that was the best moment of my life, you know, other than my wedding day, of course. But yeah, got to sing with a live band, with that one, and I'm absolutely stoked. But yeah, I just really like the Way you Make Me Feel because it's just, oh, thank you, it's just, I don't know, it's just a fun little track.

Davey:

It is.

Hannah:

I have occasionally sang Valerie quite a lot on karaoke, because it's a song that I covered a lot. A Zutons version or Amy Winehouse, it's always a Zutons version because I me in Winehouse Key. But, yeah, yeah, probably Mug Jacks and the Way you Make Me.

Davey:

Feel. Yeah, yeah, good old MJ, I feel like Valerie is overplayed for me yeah, I've done it so many times now.

Hannah:

I'm done. What is a song you cannot hit a note in? Now my one annoys me so much because I love the song so much same as me.

Davey:

It's one of those songs I will always sing, but I sing it so badly, yeah, it's so, so badly, and it's the greatest song ever written. Oh, africa, oh.

Hannah:

I thought you were talking about Tenacious D, oh no.

Davey:

No, this is just a tribute oh, tribute, oh no, I can sing tribute. I've done tribute live.

Hannah:

Africa. Africa because I never know what to do.

Davey:

I don't know whether to go falsetto with it or not. Go falsetto, and falsetto's too much. It's a tough one. I can't find that range. I just can't find it.

Hannah:

So mine is a low note I can't hit and it's Everybody Wants to Rule the World.

Davey:

Oh, tears for Fears, yeah, tears for Fears, yeah.

Hannah:

Everybody wants to rule the world and mine just goes world because there's no pitch in my voice left for that low and I love the whole song.

Hannah:

Lorde did a cover of it, I think as well, like a really slowed down version I think it was for like Game of Thrones or something. It was advertising for a film or something. She covered it. She could go that low and I'm just so jealous I just can't hit it. Even if I raise the key I still can't hit it because I'm raising the key so much. But then I can't now sing it that high.

Davey:

Yeah, yeah, I still can't hit the low note.

Hannah:

It's just such a oh yes, bloody tears for fears.

Davey:

We have only one question left.

Hannah:

We do, we do.

Davey:

And I went a little bit weird with this next one.

Hannah:

Okay, so we're going to end on a weird one, because mine's pretty weird as well, actually.

Davey:

Okay, yeah.

Hannah:

So what's a catchy song you can't get out of your head and it's not a TikTok song Like, for example, at the moment I've got. I need a man in finance.

Davey:

Oh, don't yeah no, trust fund no there is one particular song, and so one of the other people I work with I play this on my phone just to annoy him, because it gets stuck in his head as well. But what it then does is inadvertently it backfires, because then it gets stuck in my head oh no and it is a song from our childhood okay but it is a song from our childhood. Okay, but it's a theme to a TV show.

Hannah:

Oh no, what is it?

Davey:

And it's a theme to the Little Sobo. There's a place where I'm going to be.

Hannah:

You were singing this on an episode last time.

Davey:

It gets stuck in my Right now. I've just done that. It will be like three o'clock this afternoon and I'll break into the Little Sobo. It's there dormant the whole time. It's just laying dormant mine's the same.

Hannah:

Mine is always dormant. And then when I get in the shower so much so that now my husband sings it as well when we're in the shower and it's um, it's uh, move your feet by junior, senior, everybody move your feet, every united whoa. And then we're like, we're like singing it like in tandem in the shower. Now it's just really funny. Junior, senior, everybody movie for every United Whoa. And then we're like singing it in tandem in the shower. Now it's just really funny, yeah, just every now. And then I'll just be like everybody and I'm like what am I doing? It's such an old song. And then it's just like whoa, dune dune, yeah, dune dune, dune, dune dune, get down, oh it, yeah. That song is constantly lays dormant in my head. And then I'll just be randomly doing a task and I'll just be like, oh for God's sake, yeah.

Davey:

Yeah.

Hannah:

What a whirlwind that was, I know.

Davey:

That was a whirlwind. And again quite a Eclectic mix. Eclectic mix and a varied, very varied eclectic mix.

Hannah:

I think that was Very telling of our music tastes and also quite telling of how our brain works, I suppose.

Davey:

Yeah.

Hannah:

Yeah.

Davey:

Definitely I enjoyed that. That was good fun.

Hannah:

That was good fun that was a good idea of yours I just, I just compel anyone, when they're not stressed, to sing sam and the womp and not cheer up.

Davey:

I think that's amazing, oh it's just.

Hannah:

It's just my go-to, yeah, with the bass and drum while we're around, like I'm cool and groovy. I like your style of wamping, it's so good, brilliant yes, well, we'll leave you lovely people there. We hope you've enjoyed this episode. Bit of a weird one for us. Yeah, we try and bring music back into it because we're so musical we are so musical it just seems weird, not to, I don't know, not to mention it.

Davey:

But I mean, if there are any kind of on the same sort of vein of episodes, there are kind of episodes that you would like us to do, even things like that where you would like us to ask questions to each other. Yeah, yeah, drop us a line Anything.

Hannah:

Because we're running out of ideas.

Davey:

No, we're not, we've got plenty in the bank. And we've started doing quite a few two-parters as well, haven't we?

Hannah:

Yeah, we have. Yeah, I'm glad this one hasn't stretched too far into a two-part but yeah, yeah, we're just too chatty we are we're too chatty and we like to keep them under an hour, don't we? We do, we do under 50 minutes maybe, but yeah but we just have so much fun with it.

Davey:

We just keep going yeah, we do.

Hannah:

Yeah, you can't shut us up no anyway, yes, find us on on our socials, so get on it. Enjoy the rest of your days, evenings, nights, weeks, months.

Davey:

I guess the sun's out today, which is novelty. So if the sun's out, enjoy the sun.

Hannah:

The studio is wham.

Davey:

It is hot, very wham, it is hot.

Hannah:

Yeah, good day.

Davey:

Bye-bye.

Hannah:

Bye-bye, bye-bye.